User blog comment:Dr. Eggman rox 2/Devil May Cry Timeline/@comment-65.190.176.220-20140612154033

you have to remember that they had the animated series between DMC1 and DMC2 and Trish was not quite as close to Dante as she was at the end of DMC1. also the original instrumental version of Lock and Load was used as one of the battle themes in DMC2 as well as 1. I'm not saying its imposible for DMC2 to be before DMC1 but its good to take this stuff into acount as well.